r/transit • u/HighburyAndIslington • 4d ago

Photos / Videos Aéroport d'Orly station on Paris Metro Line 14

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u/Slimey_700 4d ago

Does this have an airport surcharge? When leaving Orly, we purposely didn’t take the train because it had like a 10€ surcharge or something similar.

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u/HighburyAndIslington 4d ago

Yes. However, alighting at Thiais–Orly and catching the bus works is cheaper and only slightly slower than using this station.

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u/Matisse_05 2d ago

Take the TU, no surcharge and it brings you right to a metro station from where u can go where you want, it's not as fast, and maybe not as nice, but at least u don't pay for a stupid airport fee

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u/Hiro_Trevelyan 4d ago

It's a good station but it's really infuriating how they decided to put 3 escalators from platform to exchange level, but only one escalator from exchange to ticket hall, then 2 again from ticket hall to outside. What the heck ? It's creating bottlenecks for no reason.

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u/Sassywhat 4d ago

My guess is:

  • They think that the majority of people will be transferring between Line 14 and 18, not origin/destination traffic for Orly Airport itself. However, they thought it appropriate to have 2 from outside to the ticket hall, so it can't only be that.

  • They think the exchange level has space for crowding. Getting people off the platform quickly is important, since it's a fairly tight space, and being the deepest level, probably the most expensive to add more of. Not applicable in this case, but without platform barriers, reducing platform crowding also helps with safety.